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Do you love cats, dogs or other companion animals? Do you want to do more to help protect these pets, but don't know where to start? You've come to the right place. This site and my books are about helping caring people just like you do more for companion animals.

You can make a difference in the life of animals.

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The Definitive Guide to Helping Companion Animals!

Defending the Defenseless: A Guide to Protecting and Advocating for Petshas been called the “definitive guide” for helping companion animals. This is a heart-warming book featuring people like you and organizations who are taking extraordinary steps to help animals. If you love animals, this book show you how to get involved, from the simplest of tasks to more extensive involvement. If we all just take one small step to help pets, we will launch the tipping point to end cruelty and homelessness.

Discover the Ugly Truth About Pound Seizure

How Shelter Pets Are Brokered for Experimentation exposes the little-known practice of shelters providing dogs and cats for experimentation. Many Americans are unaware of pound seizure (or pound release), yet it has existed since the 1940s. Although pound seizure is on the decline, there are still thousands of homeless, abused, neglected and former family pets victimized yearly by this practice. We are at a tipping point in the United States where animals are being understood as sentient creatures and the masses are opposing their use in experimentation.